Im doing a project for school and need to know more about turkish people. What do they produce? (like foods or somthing like that?) thanks for all your answers :) cotton
tobacco
tea
oranges, bananas etc.
sugar
olives
well these are the most known things, I will come back and edit if I remember more but we produce almost everything and could live without needing any other countries DejaVu is right!
But that's only because Ipek K can't answer. :P
Actually, aren't pistachios a big export? I think Turkey is the third-largest producer of pistachios in the world.
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On behalf of IPEK K, because she can't answer this question, a fact for which I protest Yahoo Answers. The manner in which I'm protesting is unclear, but suffice to say, I am protesting somehow!
Turkey ranked seventh worldwide in terms of agricultural production output in 2005.
As of March 2007, Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnut, fig, apricot, cherry, quince and pomegranate; the second largest producer of watermelon, cucumber and chickpea; the third largest producer of tomato, eggplant, green pepper, lentil and pistacchio; the fourth largest producer of onion and olive; the fifth largest producer of sugar beet; the sixth largest producer of tobacco, tea and apple; the seventh largest producer of cotton and barley; the eighth largest producer of almond; the ninth largest producer of wheat, rye and grapefruit, and the tenth largest producer of lemon. plus dejavu said:
nuts ( first producer in the world)
also tourism, Agricultural sector
Turkey ranked seventh worldwide in terms of agricultural production output in 2005.
As of March 2007, Turkey is the world's largest producer of hazelnut, fig, apricot, cherry, quince and pomegranate; the second largest producer of watermelon, cucumber and chickpea; the third largest producer of tomato, eggplant, green pepper, lentil and pistacchio; the fourth largest producer of onion and olive; the fifth largest producer of sugar beet; the sixth largest producer of tobacco, tea and apple; the seventh largest producer of cotton and barley; the eighth largest producer of almond; the ninth largest producer of wheat, rye and grapefruit, and the tenth largest producer of lemon.
Turkey has been self-sufficient in food production since the 1980s. The agricultural output has been growing at a respectable rate. However, since the 1980s agriculture has been in a state of decline in comparison to the total economy. Agricultural loans are issued with negative interest rates. Today, many of the institutions established between 1930 and 1980 continue to play important roles in the practices of farmers. Historically Turkey's farmers have been fairly fragmented. According to the 1990 Census "85% of agricultural holdings were under 10 hectares and 57% of these were fragmented into four or more non-contiguous plots."[8] Many old agricultural attitudes remain widespread, but these traditions are expected to change with the EU accession process. Turkey is dismantling the incentive system. Fertiliser and pesticide subsidies have been curtailed and remaining price supports have been gradually converted to floor prices. The government has also initiated many planned projects, such as the Southeastern Anatolia Project (G.A.P project). The advent of the G.A.P promises a very prosperous future for the southeastern agriculture.
Given all the efforts of the government, agricultural extension and research services are, in relative terms, inadequately organized in Turkey. This has been attributed to shortages of qualified advisers, transportation, and equipment. Agricultural research is distributed among nearly 100 government institutions and universities. The inability to spread the use of new technologies has been attributed to a reluctance of trained personnel to work in the field. The pay disparity in this sector is traditionally very high and incentives to train people do not cover this gap. Research is organized by commodity, with independent units for such major crops as cotton, tobacco, and citrus fruit. Observers note that coordination of the efforts of different research units and links between extension services are inadequate.
The livestock industry, compared to the initial years of the Republic, showed little improvement in productivity, and the later years of the decade saw stagnation. However livestock products, including meat, milk, wool, and eggs, contributed to more than 鈪?of the value of agricultural output. Fishing is another important part of the economy.
Industrial production
Turkey ranked twenty-first worldwide in terms of industrial production output in 2005. Its industrial sector had a 19% share in employment, 29% share in national production, and 94% share in total exports.
The largest industry is textiles and clothing (16.3% of total industrial capacity in 2005 according to the State Institute of Statistics), followed by oil refinery (14.5%), food (10.6%), chemicals (10.3%), iron and steel (8.9%), automotive (6.3%), and machinery (5.8%). Textiles and clothing also constitutes the largest share in total exports (19% in 2005), followed by automotive (18%), iron and steel (13%), white goods (10%), chemicals and pharmaceuticals (9%), and machinery (7%). Turkish companies made clothing exports worth $13.98 billion in 2006; more than $10.67 billion of which (76.33%) were made to the EU member states.[9]
Turkey's Vestel Electronics is the largest TV producer in Europe, accounting for a quarter of all TV sets manufactured and sold on the continent. By January 2005, Vestel and its rival Turkish electronics and white goods brand BEKO accounted for more than half of all TV sets manufactured in Europe. Another Turkish electronics brand, Profilo-Telra, was Europe's third largest TV producer in 2005. EU market share of Turkish companies in consumer electronics has increased significantly in the last 15 years - in color TVs from 5% in 1995 to 45% in 2005, in digital devices from 3% to 15%, and in white goods from 3% to 18%.
Turkey also has a large and growing automotive industry, which produced 1,024,987 motor vehicles in 2006, ranking as the 6th largest automotive producer in Europe; behind Germany (5,819,614), France (3,174,260), Spain (2,770,435), the United Kingdom (1,648,388), and Italy (1,211,594), respectively. The automotive industry is an important part of the economy since the late 1990s. The companies in the sector are mainly located in the Marmara Region. Existing motor vehicle production capacity of the automotive industry in Turkey is 1,024,987 units per year, as of 2006. The combined capacity of the 6 companies producing passenger cars stood at 726,000 units per year in 2002, reaching 991,621 units per year in 2006[15]. In 2002, FIAT/Tofas had 34% of this capacity, Oyak/Renault 31%, Hyundai/Assan and Toyota 14% each, Honda 4%, and Ford/Otosan 3%. With a cluster of car-makers and parts suppliers, the Turkish automotive sector, the 17th largest producer of passenger cars (991,621 units) in the world in 2006[16], has become an integral part of the global network of production bases and now exporting over USD 14 billion (2002) worth of motor vehicles and components.
Natural resources
Turkey ranks tenth in the world in terms of the diversity of minerals produced in the country. Around 60 different minerals are currently produced in Turkey. The richest mineral deposits in the country are boron salts and Turkey鈥檚 reserves amount to 63% of the world鈥檚 total.
Turkey is an oil producer, but the level of production isn't enough to make the country self sufficient. As a result, it is a net oil and gas importer.
The pipeline network in Turkey included 1,738 km for crude oil, 2,321 km for petroleum products, and 708 km for natural gas in 1999. Several major new pipelines are planned, especially the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline for Caspian oilfields, the longest one in the world, which recently opened in 2005.
According to the CIA World Factbook, other natural resources include coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, uranium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestine (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower.
The ore borax, from which boron is extracted is very abundant in Turkey. Turkey along with the United States, is one of the world's largest producers of boron.
Energy
To cover the increasing energy needs of its population and ensure the continued raising of its living standard, Turkey plans several nuclear power plants. Nuclear power proposals were presented as early as in the 1960s, but plans were repeatedly canceled even after bids were made by interested manufacturers because of high costs and safety concerns. Turkey has always chosen Candu nuclear reactors because they burn natural uranium which is cheap and available locally and because they can be refueled online. This has caused uneasy feelings to Turkey's neighbors because they are ideal for producing weapons grade plutonium. Great answers except for the moronic one provided by djb2009 who is attempting to inject insult or ridicule but can't pull it off because Turkey incidentally also has turkeys.
If it's for your project you can also make note of Turkey's name in its true form which is T眉rkiye, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (T眉rkiye Cumhuriyeti).
Please note of the differences in the alphabet. Most countries of the world have different names in different languages. The USA is known in Turkey as Amerika Birle艧ik Devletler or ABD.
This is a good site to learn about Turkey in depth.
http://www.mymerhaba.com/en/main/index.a...
This is about the people. Very good page.
http://www.mymerhaba.com/en/main/content...
Good luck with that. ^_^ hi Sarah,
i think , in T眉rkiye,the most important product are "hospitality and fraternity" . Above are the agricultural produce. If you want more, Turkey has strong textile and automobile industries. Not to mention the hospitality industry (tourism) like 脟etin said. Turkeys :) |
